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Growing up in South Africa’s poverty-stricken Cape Flats, artist Linsey Levendall (@linsey_levendall) didn’t have many resources — but he turned that scarcity into his strength. “I’m classified as colored back home, and as a colored boy, you don’t really have those opportunities,” says the 32-year-old, who now lives in Saskatchewan, Canada. “It afforded me a way of thinking that I could see my peers never had. I’m not a purist. Even if I do paintings, I don’t just stick to one medium. I jump around.” That might mean he uses a pricey Kolinsky sable hair paintbrush to shade a portrait that he’s drawn over his two-year-old daughter’s doodles, or that he pulls out a ballpoint pen to sketch a fantastical world on the butcher paper acting as a restaurant’s tablecloth. “I don’t see less worth within myself because I never went to those art schools. I feel less tainted. I don’t have preconceived ideas,” he says. “You drift further into this art world and it’s all about champagne and networking — and you get lost in it. When I do my work, there’s this thinking at the back of my mind that I’m representing for my people who haven’t made it, my community back home. I’m always trying to not forget.” Photo by @linsey_levendall

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